🧵 Saga file #35
Iran war casualties
Oct 5, 1 PM ET to Oct 12, 5 AM ET
- 2parts so far
- 14outlets carried a part
- 🫏8 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 6.7 daysrunning so far
- 6 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 5, 1 PM ET · on the front pages 2 daysSoldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike report delayed medical care
- Oct 11, 8 PM ET · on the front pages 9 hoursPentagon updates troop death toll in Iran war to 21
📰 Spread
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🧩 The parts
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1. Soldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike report delayed medical care
Oct 5, 1 PM ET · 10 outlets · on the front pages 2 days
“Soldiers Seriously Wounded In Iranian Drone Strike Say Military’s Medical System Failed Them” first: HuffPost
2. Pentagon updates troop death toll in Iran war to 21
Oct 11, 8 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 9 hours
“Pentagon Quietly Raises Number of Troop Deaths in Iran — After Hegseth Slammed Reporting Questioning the Official Death Toll as ‘DISGUSTING’” first: Mediaite, Raw Story
📺 BBC News 3 min, Fox News 2 min · 📻 1 newscast
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.